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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 8, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 2

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Notes of News.

—THE Anglican church costs England $58,000,000 a year.

—THIS winter Italy has had her first snow-storm since 1871.

—IN the Mono District, Belgium, 10,000 miners are on a strike.

—GREAT floods occurred on the Canary Islands on the 21st of December.

—LAND costs $700,000 an acre in an eligible part of New York City.

—A NEW French cabinet has been formed, with De Freycinet as president.

—THE public debt of Great Britain is £709,430,593, or $3,547,152,965.

—DURING the past year the Italian courts sentenced 41,555 persons of whom 3,546 were women.

—THE value of church property in the State of New York is nearly $140,000,000.

—THE number of persons lost in the Tay-bridge disaster is now supposed to be not more than 90.

—IN the Madras presidency, 5,000 persons have abandoned the worship of idols during the year.

—THE New York banks are making war on the standard silver dollar, and seem determined to crowd it out of circulation.

—A LATE paper says that unless the destitute people of Roumelia receive prompt help, thousands must perish from cold and starvation.

—DEC. 30, an attempt was made to assassinate the King and Queen of Spain. The dastardly act excited general indignation in Madrid.

—THE native helpers in the Baptist missions in India have agreed to give up the use of tobacco and beetroot, and devote the money spent for them to the Lord.

—THE Cape of Good Hope has been brought into telegraphic communication with the rest of the world by means of a cable to Zanzibar and Aden.

—DURING the first 9 months of 1879, there were 2,900 murders or attempts at murder in Italy, or over 10 a day; there were also 1,900 cases of highway robbery.

—THE recent severe storms in Great Britain and on the adjacent waters are resulting in many shipping casualties, and it is feared that an immense number of wrecks have occurred along the coast.

—ON Sunday night, Dec. 28, there was another great fire in Boston. The large and well-known publishing house of Houghton, Osgood & Co. was destroyed. The loss is estimated at $1,500,000.

—DISPATCHES dated Jan. 2 say that unless the people of Northern Persia receive aid from England and America, large numbers must perish, as the food-supply is only sufficient for two months, and it is seven months to harvest-time.

—DAVID MEISENTHALER, of Whitestone, Kan., was recently struck by an aerolite and instantly killed. The stone is described as about the size of a water-bucket, and it was formed of iron pyrites. The man was fearfully mutilated.

—THERE has been a partial surrender by the Utes; a number of the prisoners demanded by the government have been given up. But General Hatch refused to move until all of them had been surrendered, and Ouray is to make another attempt.

—FRANCE and Austria are threatened with floods. The Seine in France and the Rhine and Main in Germany are swollen in consequence of the ice blocking their currents. Paris and Vienna are in great danger, also many other towns of less note.

—IN addition to her other troubles, Russia is suffering from famine. The country between the rivers Volga and Don is famine-stricken, and many have already perished. Famine and typhus fever have appeared at Taganrog, and the people have asked relief of the government.

—A case of swine fever has occurred on the premises of Mr. George Davies, a laborer employed on the Doddington estate, England, and who lives at the Doddington farm-yard. The animal died before the veterinary surgeon was called in. The case having been reported to the police, steps have been taken by the local authority to declare the place infected.

—A FRENCH nobleman has recently had the oldest of his hounds blessed with holy water by a priest at the altar. Trumpets were sounded as the ceremony proceeded. These consecrated hounds and 300 guests then hunted a poor stag till it was dead. “Idolatry and superstition, in all its forms,” comments the Christian at Work, “has more of cruelty in it than of religion.”

—THE illumination at Menlo Park, N. J., on New Year’s eve, was a brilliant affair, and demonstrated the complete success of Edison’s electric light. The electric light introduced into the British Museum showed itself during a recent London fog. As has been the usual custom at such a time, the readers were about leaving, when the electric light was turned on and illumined the room so perfectly that there was general applause.

—THE extent to which Nihilism is undermining the empire in Russia, and the terror which its secret operations inspire, is disclosed by St. Petersburg dispatches of Jan. 2, announcing that it is proposed to decree especial penalties for the punishment of those who propagate Nihilist doctrines in the army. But the severity of punishments decreed never yet operated to arrest political conspiracies, and it must fail to do so in this instance.—Inter-Ocean.

—THE case of the Mohammedan priest who was arrested, tried, and condemned to death, for assisting a German, Protestant minister to translate religious works into the Turkish language, has excited considerable interest. Minister Layard, the British Ambassador to Constantinople, demanded his release, and informed the Porte that unless his demand were acceded to, he should suspend diplomatic relations with the Turkish government. At his last interview with the Sultan, it was understood that the priest was to be liberated, and the Protestant minister was to receive back his papers, which had been seized.